Essay Archive - The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast depicts the story of an unstable, antisocial
individual whose unsubstantiable paranoia causes him to dramatically alter the
courses of his and other peoples lives. The mans continual fear of a nuclear
invasion by an irate, immoral country eventually this man to move himself and
his family to a remote jungle area of Honduras where he planned to establish a
utopian society of his own design. Some themes that are conveyed through this
story are the ability of split-second decisions to dramatically alter anybody's
life, and the inability of....
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